University of Southern California
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SUMMER fi TROJAN
Vol. XVII	LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1966	^,72	No. 6
'Miscegenation Here to Stay
Sociologist Soys L.A. Leads U.S. in Number
By STAN METZLER
Los Angeles County is where the action is, a prominent sociologist has reported. And the action he is referring to is interracial marriage.
“Interracial marriages in Los Angeles are here to stay,” Dr. John H. Burma said here Wednesday, “and the number of such marriages will continue to increase."
Dr. Burma, chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Grinnell College in Iowa, was reporting to the USC faculty on an independent study of “Ethnic and Racial Intermarriage in Los Angeles County."
Survey Summary
His Faculty Center talk, a summary of a long survey of who marries whom in this the most racially mixed metropolitan area on the U.S. mainland, ended with the listing of four major predictions and conclusions.
1.	Intermarriage is here to stay and will increase;
2.	Although the smaller racial minorities marry out in a higher proportion than other racial groups, there is no danger of their disappearing by assimilation;
3.	Prejudice and social distance plays no great part in deciding which interracial couples will marry;
4.	Those factors bearing heaviest on interracial marriages, and thereby giving the closest resemblence to a predictable pattern, are assimilation, propinquity, tolerance and equality.
Begun in 1948
Dr. Burma’s study was begun in 1948, when the Supreme Court overturned California’s antimiscegenation law. The law had outlawed marriage between Caucasians (including Mexican-Americans) and nonwhites.
Since marriage between Anglos and Mexicans, as well as between two members of different nonwhite races, was allowed under the old law, these marriages were not considered in Dr. Burma’s study.
Since that year he has arbitrarily chosen for study 375,000 marriages consumated in Los Angeles County, 3,200 of which were intermarriages.
Homogenous
“All major United States groups look with favor on homogenous marriages,” he told the faculty, “and with disfavor on intermarriages.
“But, as always, it is a losing battle. The physical proximity of large groups has resulted in large intermarriages.”
When the groups were considered equal by society, he said, the marriages wei’e held indiscriminately.
Males Dominant
But when the groups were in a dominant and subordinate position, he reported, the male of the dominate tended to marry the female of the subordinate, usually without benefit of a legal contract.
Such illegal marriages, however, have not been considered by Dr. Burma, and, indeed, their number is in all probability little higher than illegal interracial marriages because California no longer has its antimiscegenation law.
That law, incidentally, was struck down for religious reasons, as it was tested when two Catholics, a Negro and a wiiite said it prohibited their religious freedom to marry within the Church.
U, College,
Summer
USC Alumnus Del Conte Is 'Birdie' on Valley Stage
A name from the USC record books 13 being transferred to the marquee of the Valley Music Theater in Woodland Hills.
Ken Del Conte, a three-year varsity football Hterman at USC from 1960-1962, will have the title role of Conrad Birdie in “Bye-Bye Birdie,” a musical, running tonight through July 24.
As well as performing on the gridiron at USC and playing for the 1962 national collegia^ champions, he was elected ASSC president in his senior year.
Del Conte began his acting career in USC drama productions. He played Mack the Knife in “Threepenny Opera," and Yaslia in Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard’’ on the Stop Gap stage.
More recently, he has performed in an episode of the “Batman” television series, in the current screen hit “What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" and in several film shorts. His role in “Bye-Bye Birdie" is his first lead in a live professional production.
He has just completed a two-week run in the same role at the Valley Music Theater in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Valley Music Theater in Woodland Hills is located at 20600 Ventura Blvd.
While at USC. Del Conte was a Scholastic All American in football and the recipient of the All-Coast (AAWU) Scholar - Leader Achievement Award. He also received the senior letterman award for having the highest cumulative grade point average among athletes.
In Merger
FORMER GRIDDER, PREXY
Merger of University College and the Summer Session under Dean Paul E. Hadley
has been announced.
University College is the late afternoon and early evening division of USC. The 61-year-old Summer Session is the oldest in southern California.
Dr. Hadley, who has been Summer Session dean since 1955, has been appointed Dean of University College and the Summer Session . Dr. Carl Hancey, dean of University College since 1947, has assumed a full-time position as dean of USC’s program in Aerospace Safetjr and Management which he has also headed since 1952.
Consolidation of University College .and the Summer Session “reflects a general trend in the United States to combine summer sessions, continuing education, extension programs, and evening colleges under one administration," the administration said.
Donald M. Searcy continues as associate dean of University College and the extension division under the new organization
Curtiss R Hungerford was promoted to assis.tant dean for University College. He (Cont’d on Page 4 Col. 4)
Ken Del Conte to Lead in ‘Bye-Bye Birdie*